Clementine
Eastern Red-Spotted Newt
In the deep green silence of the forest lives Clementine, a red-spotted newt known as the Dreamkeeper. Folklore tells that she wanders the moss at twilight, collecting dreams as they drift from sleepers’ minds — and sometimes, the soft daydreams that flutter quietly in the minds of those awake. She stores them in her dappled skin, carrying both the gentle and the strange through the undergrowth until dawn.
Some say the patterns on her back are maps to secret dream realms, while others believe she guards the boundary between waking and sleeping — ensuring that dreams do not slip too far into the mortal world. To keep Clementine close is to invite the watchful protection of the forest’s oldest magic, and to honor the mystery of what lies behind closed eyes at night… and the quiet wonders of the day.
Collects lost buttons. Trades secrets for riddles.
Salamander Folkore
Born of two worlds, the salamander walks the line between water and flame. To alchemists it was a fire-spirit, said to endure the hottest embers without harm, a secret emblem of transformation.
Among Algonquian-speaking peoples, it was whispered that amphibians meddled with rain and fire alike, keepers of balance between storm and hearth.
When European settlers carried their own superstitions into New England, the salamander became a creature of suspicion: slipping from damp logs into the flames of lit fireplaces, they became associated with witchcraft and known as a familiar of hidden covens.
And so the salamander remains - an omen of thresholds and mysteries, neither wholly of fire nor water, but forever flickering between them.
